"Paul Corfield" wrote in message
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i believe Network Rail are in the design phase for Great Western
electrification so work is happening even if nothing obvious has
turned up "on site".

There's plenty of infrastructure clearance work going on now, mainly track
lowering and bridge rebuilding. A significant number of overbridge sites on
the stretch between Reading and Didcot looked like a disaster zone just
after the Christmas and New Year break. Civils work of similar nature has
just started between Reading and Newbury as well.

The actual wires will only appear much later, but the civils part of the
project is definitely underway...

Paul S

"Paul Scott" wrote

There's plenty of infrastructure clearance work going on now, mainly track
lowering and bridge rebuilding. A significant number of overbridge sites
on the stretch between Reading and Didcot looked like a disaster zone just
after the Christmas and New Year break. Civils work of similar nature has
just started between Reading and Newbury as well.

The bridge rebuilding was done as part of Southampton to Midlands freight
gauge enhancement (though was done to giver clearance for OHLE as well).

Peter

"Peter Masson" wrote in message
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The bridge rebuilding was done as part of Southampton to Midlands freight
gauge enhancement (though was done to giver clearance for OHLE as well).

The gauge enhancement for W10 had already been competed early last year
though Peter, W10 trains were already running by March. These latest works
were definitely being announced locally as being for electrification
clearance.

Discussions elsewhere suggested that at some bridges track lowering was
found to allow just enough clearance for the W10, so the work at those was
put on the back burner until electrification was fully confirmed.

Paul